The Cameroon Naval and Industrial Shipyard company (CNIC) commonly known as Chantier Naval has new managers. They are Roland Maxime Aka’a Ndi’i and Abel Bobouin Bisiya Webnjoh. The two were appointed Director General and Deputy Director General of CNIC respectively. This is the substance of a press release signed on June 26, 2020 by Louis Claude Nyassa, chairman of the board of directors of the said company.
Roland Cime Aka’a Ndi’i, a senior off-scale civilian administrator, was previously Deputy Managing Director of the company. He replaces Forgwei Alfred Mbeng, who died on April 25, 2020 as a result of the Covid-19.
His deputy, Abel Bobouin Bisiya Webnjoh, is a civil aeronautical engineer. The two officials will have the heavy responsibility of continuing to implement the recovery plan prescribed by the government and started by their predecessors for almost five years. In particular its Vetute production tool for many years.
Failure in realizing the plan led to the dismissal in 2018 of 270 CNIC employees for economic reasons. It must be said that the company has experienced permanent discomfort for ten years, marked by poor working conditions, salary arrears and unpaid benefits. A situation which has led to several demonstrations by disgruntled past and present workers.
The rusty atmosphere within the company has triggered comfort following the drastic drop in the turnover of this public repair and maintenance company, created in 1988. Consequently, its turnover has risen from 40 billion FCFA 10 years ago, to less than 3 billion FCFA in recent years. More than 500 persons have been dismissed arbitrarily from the company in the last eight years.
